Sony to catch up on backlog with multiple PSN store updates

After a month of downtime, the PlayStation Network is finally back up and Sony …

The PlayStation Network is finally back up after nearly a month of downtime. Sony has updated the PlayStation blog with yet another FAQ, this time detailing what's working right now and what's going on with certain content (like the inFamous 2 beta) and events that were slated to take place during the outage. The post also explains what will be happening with the games and other content that were supposed to be released on the PSN during that time: in short, it looks like we'll have a busy few weeks of store updates coming up.

As for what exactly is working on PSN at the moment, Sony's Jeff Rubenstein writes:

The PSN store itself hasn't been updated since April 26, which amounts to three weeks of unreleased content, meaning that content like the demo for Motorstorm Apocalypse has yet to be released. In order to get through the huge backlog of content, Rubenstein explained that once commercial functionality is returned to the store, multiple updates will be released each week until things get back on schedule.

Several developers are also looking into ways to make things up to players who weren't able to access online-only content due to the outage. The inFamous 2 beta, which only began on April 12, will be extended, though developer Sucker Punch hasn't confirmed by how long. Zipper is also looking into ways to compensate SOCOM 4 players who were unable to play the game online. The game launched just a week before the PSN went down. Treyarch, meanwhile, will feature another "double XP weekend" for Call of Duty: Black Ops to make up for the one that was missed. No word yet on a date, however.

That's pretty much the theme of the FAQ: coming soon. Though it's encouraging to see PSN back online, details are still hard to come by. This includes details on how and when users can access the previously announced "Welcome Back" package. It does look like the blog itself will be back to normal soon, though, as Rubenstien said that readers can expect to finally see content about actual games starting tomorrow.

"Thank you for bearing with us as our role changed over the past few weeks," he wrote. "We’ll be once again talking games every day leading up to E3, which is just a few short weeks away."